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Sensitivity-Encoded Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging of the Cervical Cord

Mara Cercignania, Mark A. Horsfieldb, Federica Agostaa and Massimo Filippia

a Neuroimaging Research Unit, Department of Neuroscience,Scientific Institute and University Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
b Division of Medical Physics, University of Leicester, Leicester Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom



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  		FIG 1. Mean diffusivity (left) and FA (right) maps obtained in a healthy volunteer by using the SENSE EPI sequence. The advantage of SENSE over standard EPI is the reduction of off-resonance artifacts due to an increased bandwidth in the phase-encoding direction. As a consequence, images are less sensitive to susceptibility variations. The aliasing caused by the reduction of the FOV can be resolved by exploiting the coil sensitivity as a signal intensity encoding. In this study, the standard four-element neck coil was used to show the feasibility of the technique on a commercial machine with no dedicated hardware.





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